the chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018

the chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018
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The bar charts compare weekly
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expenditure
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expenditures
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which is spent by families in a country between 1968 and 2018. Units are measured in
per
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cent
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cents
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.
Overall
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, the average spent on food, clothing and footwear,
also
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personal
goods
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faced a downward trend to only half in 2018,
whereas
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the remaining
categories
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are the inverse, and it is noted that only household
goods
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remain unchanged in the periods given. Obviously, families in 1968 prefer to cost their money on food,
meanwhile
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in
2018
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,2018
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the average cost of weekly
expenditure
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is on the family budget. In terms of daily life needs, food is the highest spent
expenditure
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among all the
categories
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in 1968 about 30% to roughly decreased by almost half in 2018. The same follows with two other
categories
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which are clothing and footwear about 10% to only just 5% in 2018 and personal
goods
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a little below 10% in 1968 to facing a reduction to 4% in 2018. Even though fuel and power are having a decline too in 2018, it is only by 2% of it.
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, the remaining
categories
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which are housing, transport, and leisure had an extremely upward trend to almost over half in 2018 with the following detail of housing
expenditure
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at 10%, transport at 7%, and leisure at 9%. Progressively increased in 2018 to 19%, 15%, and 22%, respectively. Opposed to the cost of household
goods
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which
is remain
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remains
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the same in the following years.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words expenditure, goods, categories with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "trend" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "remain" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "almost" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • Weekly income
  • Expenditure
  • Consumption patterns
  • Cost of living
  • Discretionary spending
  • Inflation
  • Economic indicators
  • Demographics
  • Socio-economic factors
  • Technology advancements
  • Government policies
  • Consumerism
  • Lifestyle changes
  • Fiscal habits
  • Budget allocation
  • Financial priorities
  • Societal trends
  • Purchasing power
  • Income distribution
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